Mr. Speaker, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence should talk to some of the helicopter pilots and he will find out the truth.
This government has told Canadians that the long delay in replacing search and rescue helicopters would not adversely affect search and rescue capabilities. The reality is obviously somewhat different and the parliamentary secretary and the Minister of National Defence seem to be out of the loop, all because of a cynical election promise in 1993.
I ask the government again, if there had been a disaster in central Canada last week how would the victims—